Democratic reforms Healthy Food Just Got a Big Boost in the New Farm Bill A program that doubles the spending power for food stamp recipients who buy fresh produce just got more funding. Fran Korten | Jan 10, 2019
The Surprising Links Between Family Dinner and Good Health Adults who prepare quality meals for children are offering something more important than a nutrition lesson. Katherine Gustafson | Jan 2, 2019
Pollution | Climate The Fight Against Food Waste Starts at Home Decreasing the environmental footprint of food waste can save the planet and your wallet. Tim Lydon | Dec 25, 2018
Racial Justice | Native rights | Wealth and inequality | Local power | Indigenous lands 10 Podcasts That Every ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Nerd Should Listen To These shows inspire, teach, advocate, and provoke. Ciara O'Rourke | Dec 19, 2018
Mindfulness | Empathy A Good-for-Nothing Tree Makes Good Once upon a time, mesquite got no respect. Now this desert survivor is celebrated as a sustainable food source and a symbol of the borderlands. Gary Paul Nabhan | Nov 24, 2018
Education What School Lunches Have to Do With Fixing Wealth Inequality Dismantling a capitalist food system could begin with schools, which nationwide spend about $3 billion on food contracts. Korsha Wilson | Nov 13, 2018
Gender justice | Mental health Women in Male-Dominated Harvest Industry Help Each Other HarvestHER establishes a community for women, recognizing stresses and loneliness of life in conventional agriculture. Michael J. Dax | Oct 2, 2018
Citizens United | Pollution | Activism | Local economies | Local power Locals Unite to Stop Hog Farms From Polluting Their Community More than 40 families in Iowa are fighting to contain the spread of concentrated animal feeding operations. Wyatt Massey | Sep 24, 2018
Mindfulness 5 Ways Small Actions Have Huge Power To those who take the bus or refuse plastic toothbrushes: Don’t listen to the cynics. Research shows the little things matter. Sarah Lazarovic | Sep 10, 2018
Mindfulness | Aging and dying Patience Gray’s Italian Slow Food Education Foraging for weeds and mushrooms with a visionary of the sustainable food movement. Adam Federman | Sep 7, 2018
Racial Justice | Activism | Affordable housing This Chef Is Fighting Gentrification With Hot Chicken Tunde Wey’s dinner series-slash-public art project raised $50,000 to address Nashville’s affordable housing crisis. Deonna Anderson | Sep 1, 2018
Berry Farmers Break Free From Big Agriculture These farmworkers created an organic co-op that guarantees fair wages and healthy working conditions while preserving indigenous heritage. Lynsi Burton | Aug 29, 2018
Native rights Before You Try to Decolonize Your Diet, Read This A new book digs into the paradoxes of American Indian diets most people don’t know. Chelsey Luger | Aug 24, 2018
Cooperatives | Local power Tomato Canning as Protest: How a Community Resisted Corporate Farming A Missouri town’s summer ritual brings much-needed support to small family operations. Margot Ford McMillen | Aug 7, 2018
Racial Justice | Native rights A Community of Slave Descendants Is Protecting Unique Food Traditions from Rising Seas One chef is raising the profile of Gullah/Geechee cuisine to help maintain the Nation’s cultural identity. Shoshi Parks | Jul 20, 2018
Aging and dying | Mindfulness A Brief History of the Feral Blackberry The Himalayan blackberry was introduced to North America as a food crop. Like a Gremlin doused with water, it escaped its confinement and became almost impossible to eradicate. Sara Bir | Jul 18, 2018
Activism 5 Reasons Salmon Are an Environmental Justice Solution We need wild salmon—and not just because they’re tasty. They are an indicator of ecosystem health. Shannan Lenke Stoll | Jul 5, 2018
Cooperatives | Local economies The Push to Turn Church Land Into Farmland Faith leaders, conservation experts, and food advocates are joining forces to connect young farmers to the vast quantity of land owned by churches. Leilani Clark | Jul 2, 2018
Immigration | Cooperatives | Local economies | Local power Immigrant Farmers Revive Dormant Greenhouse to Grow Food From Home At a small farmers market south of Seattle, you’ll find varieties of ethnic vegetables unlikely sold in your typical supermarket. Lornet Turnbull | Jun 29, 2018
Racial Justice | Native rights | Activism | Local power Cooking Stirs the Pot for Social Change Preparing food—and letting others in our communities cook for us—is how we become good citizens who engage with the communities around us. Korsha Wilson | Jun 27, 2018
Native rights Farming as Resistance Threatened by a mining company, indigenous women in the remote highlands of Guatemala are marching, increasing productivity, and planting trees. Trina Moyles | Jun 14, 2018
Senate’s Farm Bill Moves Forward—But What Is It, Anyway? From food assistance for the poor to subsidies for a corporate food system, the nation’s next farm bill is taking shape. Shannan Lenke Stoll | Jun 14, 2018
How to Save Heirloom Tomato Seeds Heirlooms are irresistible, not just because they’re delicious, but because growing them defies capitalism. Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz | Jun 8, 2018
Pollution | Water Ever Wonder How Rainfall Affects Your Peanut Butter Sandwich Habit? Climate change will impact agriculture and food supplies. That’s why this digital classroom is teaching food literacy. Angela O’Shaughnessy | Jun 5, 2018